Dear Literacy Educator: A Message from Jan and Kari
Sometimes we get questions from literacy educators wondering if Shifting the Balance: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Literacy Classroom might be right for their particular situation or place on the journey toward more science-aligned literacy practice. We’ve written this letter, just as we wrote the book, with love and honesty about our little book and why we wrote it. The letter is available both as a full length blog post and as a downloadable PDF.
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